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Facebook has agreed to overhaul its privacy protection for more than 500million users following an investigation by data protection regulators.

Facebook have been forced to amend their overly complicated privacy policies (Picture: Alamy)

The social networking service will make a âwide rangeâ of upgrades after users outside North America were found to be at risk of unknowingly publicising personal details.

Its existing privacy policies which were found to be overly complicated and lacking transparency, the Irish data protection commissioner said.

The social networking site was warned that they must give users more information about how personal data is used, flag facial recognition, and limit the amount of time it can keep ad-click data to two years.

The US group is bound by Irish regulations because of the location of its international headquarters in Dublin.